# Wc-lib 0.8.6 Released **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [April 5, 2008, 6:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wc-lib-0-8-6-released/133965 "2008-04-05T18:39:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Detlef\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/58f4c7/32.png) [@Detlef\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Detlef_R)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 6:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wc-lib-0-8-6-released/133965/1 "2008-04-05T18:39:55Z")
Today i’ve released a new version of wc-lib. # Home [http://det.cable.nu/wclib/index.rbx](http://det.cable.nu/wclib/index.rbx) # About Wc-lib is a library to use webcams with ruby under linux. It supports video4linux in both version (I+II) and autodetects the usable version. Beside of simply taking pictures it includes some simple image processing tasks like rotatating, mirroring, mixing, … Because it is mostly written in C it is very fast. # News Add support for cameras wich provide images in Bayer format. With this a huge number of aditional cameras are supported. Add the Wc::Cam.palettes and Wc::Cam.supported\_palettes instance methods, wich will return an array with all (supported) palettes, wich the camera (and the wc-lib) can handle. Also the Wc::Cam.palette method is new, wich will return the name of the actually used palette. This is only for information / debuging, because the palette can’t be set (it’s a wc-lib internal). Add the Wc::Cam.driver instance method, wich will return the the name of the used Wc driver. For now these are video4linux and video4linux2. Add the support for pseudo controls. With this type of controls we can support controll functions wich are handled by the Wc-lib and not by the driver. For now the sharpness attribute for cameras wich provide the images in Bayer format is supported. Advance examples/viewer and examples/allcams a little bit Cheers, detlef